"Kay Musical Instrument Company Kay Musical Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer of the United States, in operation from the 1930s until the 1960s. Kay was established in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, by Henry Kay Kuhrmeyer, from the assets of the former Stromberg-Voisinet (founded as Groeschel Mandolin Company in 1890). Kay offered their first electric guitar in 1936 — five years after the Rickenbacker ""Frying pan"", and the same year as the Gibson ES-150. However, the Kuhrmeyer-owned Stromberg-Voisinet brand had produced the Stromberg Electro even earlier, in 1928, making the short-lived model arguably the first commercial electric guitar. The"
"resemblance to the musical instrument. Bazooka (instrument) The bazooka is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. Radio comedian Bob Burns is credited with inventing the instrument in the 1910s, and popularized it in the 1930s. It was also played by jazz musicians Noon Johnson and Sanford Kendrick. From its start within a lipreed mouthpiece – which may consist of nothing but the bare tube or may employ a mouthpiece which is handmade to emulate one from a low brass instrument – the air column expands into a wide length of pipe"
"Bob Burns (humorist) Robin ""Bob"" Burns (August 2, 1890 – February 2, 1956) was an American musical comedian, who appeared on radio and in movies from 1930 to 1947. Burns played a novelty musical instrument of his own invention, which he called a ""bazooka"". During World War II, the US Army's handheld anti-tank rocket launcher was nicknamed the ""bazooka"". He was born Robin Burn in Greenwood, Arkansas. When he was three years old, his family moved to Van Buren, Arkansas. As a boy, Burns played trombone and cornet in the town's ""Queen City Silver Cornet Band"". At 13, he formed"
"65. Bob Burns (humorist) Robin ""Bob"" Burns (August 2, 1890 – February 2, 1956) was an American musical comedian, who appeared on radio and in movies from 1930 to 1947. Burns played a novelty musical instrument of his own invention, which he called a ""bazooka"". During World War II, the US Army's handheld anti-tank rocket launcher was nicknamed the ""bazooka"". He was born Robin Burn in Greenwood, Arkansas. When he was three years old, his family moved to Van Buren, Arkansas. As a boy, Burns played trombone and cornet in the town's ""Queen City Silver Cornet Band"". At 13, he"
"Bazooka (instrument) The bazooka is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. Radio comedian Bob Burns is credited with inventing the instrument in the 1910s, and popularized it in the 1930s. It was also played by jazz musicians Noon Johnson and Sanford Kendrick. From its start within a lipreed mouthpiece – which may consist of nothing but the bare tube or may employ a mouthpiece which is handmade to emulate one from a low brass instrument – the air column expands into a wide length of pipe that slides freely around a"
"his own string band. Practicing in the back of Hayman's Plumbing Shop one night, he picked up a length of gas pipe and blew into it, creating an unusual sound. With modifications, this became a musical instrument he named a ""bazooka"" (after ""bazoo"", meaning a windy fellow, from the Dutch ""bazuin"" for ""trumpet""). A photograph shows him playing his invention in the Silver Cornet Band. Functioning like a crude trombone, the musical bazooka had a narrow range, but this was intentional. Burns also studied civil engineering and worked as a peanut farmer, but by 1911 was primarily an entertainer. During"
"Clinton McKinnon (musician) Clinton ""Bär"" McKinnon (born 24 December 1969) is an American musician, perhaps best known playing saxophone in San Francisco based band Mr. Bungle. Bär, pronounced 'bear', is a childhood nickname, given to him by his older sisters. In 1989 Bär joined Mr. Bungle and studied music at Humboldt State University. His primary instrument is the saxophone, but he plays a number of other instruments including flute, keyboards, guitar, drums, percussion, bass and other assorted woodwinds. He was a member of Mr. Bungle from 1989 to their disbandment in 2000, and has written and performed with Secret Chiefs"
"guitars, such as the Steer, and the Scorpion. The Burns Steer, a semi-acoustic altered to reduce feedback, was popularized by singer Billy Bragg. After Jim Burns Ltd, no more Burns guitars appeared on the market until 1992, when the company was restarted by Barry Gibson, who employed Jim Burns as a consultant in the company. The original idea was to manufacture handmade replicas of famous Burns guitars from previous incarnations, such as the Marvin and the Nu-Sonic; Gaz Coombes of Supergrass played a reissue of the Bison. Later on, in 1999, the company began work on a budget line called"
"Folkhive stated ""Dare I say that [The Last] Bison is to folk what Arcade Fire is to indie rock? Boasting 7 members and a sound seemingly born on the tree covered mountain tops of Virginia [The Last] Bison lays down expansive and yet imminently listenable folk with an original feel I've not experienced in quite some time"". The band incorporates traditional folk instruments with a reed organ, percussion and classical strings. Independent Clauses stated ""[The Last] Bison's debut album ""Quill"" uses the seriousness of Fleet Foxes' grounded sound as a framework, layering strings, bells and more on top. ""Iscariot"" and"
"bazooka, a musical instrument bearing some resemblance to a trombone. During Burns' period of fame his mother operated a gift shop out of their home. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Bob Burns House The Bob Burns House is a historic house at 821 Jefferson Street in Van Buren, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame late Victorian house, built in 1885 by a local merchant. The house is most notable as the childhood home of Bob Burns (1890-1956), a famous radio comedian of the 1930s and 1940s. The Burn family (the ""s"""
"Bassoon The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band, and chamber music literature. The bassoon is a non-transposing instrument known for its distinctive tone colour, wide range, variety of character and agility. Someone who plays the bassoon is called a bassoonist. The word bassoon comes from French ""basson"" and from Italian ""bassone"" (""basso"" with the augmentative suffix ""-one""). However, the Italian name for the same"
"set out to make, in his own words, ""mass produced one-offs"", such as the Marvin, a radical take on the Stratocaster style with many more differences than it is generally credited with The Bison, now considered as a classic, combined fewer Fender influences with a shorter scale length of 25 inches, and the ""Wild Dog"" electronics, allowing the high-output Tri-Sonic pickups to be selected in many different, and sometimes unusual, combinations. Burns had a proprietary vibrato system, which was used also on Gretsch guitars. The original guitars made many showbiz friends, and were seen in the hands of some high-profile"
"of his three solos (the other two involving a valved trombone and a trumpet) in a live performance of his song ""Great Guns"". Japanese free-improvisation trumpeter Toshinori Kondo has played baritone horn on some dates and recordings (e.g., ""Jazz Bunker""), as has saxophonist Ralph Carney (e.g., ""Night on Earth"") Baritone horn The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and alto (tenor) horn, but is narrower than the conical bore of the euphonium. It uses"
"Baritone horn The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and alto (tenor) horn, but is narrower than the conical bore of the euphonium. It uses a wide-rimmed cup mouthpiece like that of its peers, the trombone and euphonium. Like the trombone and the euphonium, the baritone horn can be considered either a transposing or non-transposing instrument. In the UK, the baritone horn is frequently found in brass bands. In concert band music, there is"
"""The Woodcutter's Son"" have a darkly pastoral bent that recalls pre-""The King Is Dead"" Decemberists."" The Last Bison has headlined the Norva Theatre in Norfolk as well as performed with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The Daily Press said of Bison's live performance, ""The stars of [the] show did not disappoint. Bison skillfully performed complex arrangements and delivered songs with passion and sensitivity [...] [The Last] Bison is a unique musical outfit that creates an unusual energy on stage."" According to an e-mail sent out by the band on July 20, 2012, they officially changed their name from Bison to The"
"Band"". Before radio, Burns was known as a musician, creating his own string band at the age of 13. During his teeming years, Burns invented an instrument which he called a ""bazooka"" out of a gas pipe. The bazooka functioned like a crude trombone and had a narrow range. The bazooka would become a permanent part of Burns' comedy act. In 1930, Burns' radio career began as a character on a local Los Angeles radio program called ""The Fun Factory"" as the character ""Soda Pop"". After several jobs at several different radio stations in Los Angeles in 1935, Burns went"
"Tito Burns Tito Burns (born Nathan Bernstein, 7 February 1921 – 23 August 2010) was a British musician and impresario, who was active in both jazz and rock and roll. Born in London, Burns was an accomplished accordionist, whose group, the Tito Burns Septet, featured on the BBC's ""Accordion Club"" radio series. In 1947, they are thought to have been the first band to perform the new jazz idiom bebop on BBC Radio. When the show ended, the band went on tour and recorded a number of sides with various line-ups, including the pianist and trumpeter Dennis Rose and saxophonist"
"Fiscorn A fiscorn () is a musical instrument. It is in the brass family, a bass flugelhorn in the key of C. Originally played in polka bands throughout Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, as well as in military bands in Italy, the instrument has migrated to find its home today in Catalonia. Favored over other valved low brass for its haunting mellow tone and bell front projection, the fiscorn quickly became an essential instrument of the cobla band, along with the tenora, tible and flabiol. While the instrument has been dropped from most music ensembles for intonational concerns, the instrument's"
"Bush band A bush band is a group of musicians that play Australian bush ballads. A similar bush band tradition is also found in New Zealand. In addition to vocals, instruments featured in bush bands may include fiddle, accordion, guitar, banjo, mandolin, concertina, harmonica, lagerphone, bush bass (tea chest bass) or double bass, tin whistle, and bodhrán. Less common are the piano, bones, barcoo dog (a sheep herding tool used as a sistrum), spoons, and musical saw. Although not traditional, electric bass guitar or electric guitar have occasionally been used since the 1970s. Bush bands play music for bush dances,"
"edge of the guitar. Burns London Burns is an English manufacturer of electric guitars and bass guitars, founded by Alice Louise Farrell (1908–1993) and James Ormston (Jim) Burns (1925–1998) in 1959. The company was first named Burns-Weill, then renamed Ormston Burns Ltd. At its peak, in the 1960s, it was the most successful guitar company in England. Ormston Burns Ltd. was bought up by Baldwin Piano Company in 1965, and the company was renamed Baldwin-Burns. Burns guitars were reintroduced in 1991 under the name Burns London, and the product line now includes a collector's edition of the first model the"
"Piston (music) The piston (Breton: pistoñ, English phonetic ""pist-on"") is a type of oboe invented by Breton musician, teacher, and luthier Youenn Le Bihan in 1983. The pistoñ is a contemporary development of the hautbois, classical and/or baroque oboe, influenced by the bombard or talabard, the traditional double reed instrument of Brittany. It is typically rooted in the key of D and features post-mounted simple system key-work to expand its range. The tone of the pistoñ stands in a warm and rich middle ground between the trumpet-like tone of the bombard and that of the baroque oboe. The bore is"
"Pint"", and ""The Last Romance"". He contributed piano, organ, rhodes, and vocals to Malcolm Middleton's albums, """", ""Into The Woods"", ""A Brighter Beat"" and ""Sleight of Heart"". He contributed guitar and Fender Rhodes to the 2004 album ""Grown Backwards"" by David Byrne on the track ""Tiny Apocalypse"". He has also played keyboards on the 2009 album ""Prevention"" by Scottish band De Rosa. He often plays DJ sets, often alongside fellow band member Stuart Braithwaite. Along with wife Rachel, Burns owns the bar Das Gift in the Neukölln district of Berlin. Barry Burns Barry Burns is a Scottish musician best known"
"Belizean interior. Traditional instruments include the banjo, guitar, drums, dingaling bell, accordion and a donkey's jawbone played by running a stick up and down the teeth, and also a grater. Brukdown remains a rural, rarely recorded genre. This genre of music has primarily African elements, while the only significant European element, is the Accordion. Brukdown Brukdown is a genre of Belizean music. Its best-known performer and innovator, Wilfred Peters is regarded as a Belizean national icon. The word ""brukdown"" may come from ""broken down calypso"", referring to the similarities between brukdown and Trinidadian calypso music; the presence of large numbers"
"played a dolceola on his recordings, but his instrument was in fact called a ""dulceola"", and was a home-made fingered fretless zither. Alex Turner of English band Arctic Monkeys plays the dolceola on the band's 2018 album ""Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino."" Dolceola A dolceola is a musical instrument resembling a miniature piano, but which is in fact a zither with a keyboard. It is used in traditional holy blues and has an unusual, angelic, music-box sound. Dolceolas were made by the Toledo Symphony Company from 1903 to 1907. Paul Mason Howard accompanied Lead Belly on dolceola on some of"
"Burns London Burns is an English manufacturer of electric guitars and bass guitars, founded by Alice Louise Farrell (1908–1993) and James Ormston (Jim) Burns (1925–1998) in 1959. The company was first named Burns-Weill, then renamed Ormston Burns Ltd. At its peak, in the 1960s, it was the most successful guitar company in England. Ormston Burns Ltd. was bought up by Baldwin Piano Company in 1965, and the company was renamed Baldwin-Burns. Burns guitars were reintroduced in 1991 under the name Burns London, and the product line now includes a collector's edition of the first model the company produced. Jim Burns"
"of stringed instruments in different regions at an early date). Bandora (instrument) The bandora or bandore is a large long-necked plucked string-instrument that can be regarded as a bass cittern though it does not have the re-entrant tuning typical of the cittern. Probably first built by John Rose in England around 1560, it remained popular for over a century. A somewhat smaller version was the orpharion. The bandora is frequently one of the two bass instruments in a broken consort as associated with the works of Thomas Morley, and it is also a solo instrument in its own right. Anthony"
"Eddie ""Guitar"" Burns Eddie ""Guitar"" Burns (February 8, 1928 – December 12, 2012) was an American Detroit blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter. His career spanned seven decades. Among Detroit bluesmen, Burns was deemed to have been exceeded in stature by only John Lee Hooker. Burns was born in Belzoni, Mississippi. His father was a sharecropper who performed as a singer in medicine shows, but Burns was raised mainly by his grandparents. He was self-taught in playing the harmonica and made his first guitar. Burns was initially influenced by the music of Sonny Boy Williamson I and Big Bill"
"Hanson Musical Instruments Hanson Musical Instruments, LTD is a manufacturer of electric guitars and electronics/pickups for electric guitars and basses. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, founded in 2005 by John and Bo Pirruccello. The company is the current owner of the Lakland brand of basses. The company's product range includes the Chicagoan, a mini-humbucker guitar designed to resemble the Epiphone Riviera and the Gretsch White Falcon, the Cigno, supporting P-90 pickups, and the three-humbucker Firenze. Richie Furay played a Hanson Chicagoan ST during the 2011 Buffalo Springfield reunion tour. Anne McCue Paul Cotton of Poco and Illinois"
"Buck Trent Charles Wilburn ""Buck"" Trent is an American country music instrumentalist currently performing in Branson, Missouri. He invented the electric banjo and also plays the five-string banjo, dobro, steel guitar, mandolin, electric bass and guitar. Born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Trent started performing on WORD (AM) Radio at the age of 10. He traveled to California and Texas, finally arriving in Nashville in 1959 where he joined the Bill Carlisle Show and first appeared on the ""Grand Ole Opry"". He was a member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys from 1960-1961, Porter Wagoner's ""Wagon Masters"" from 1962 to"
"Huber Banjos produces a Jim Mills signature model based on the Mack Crow. Jim released a book on pre-war Gibson banjos in 2009, ""Gibson Mastertone: Flathead 5-String Banjos of the 1930′s and 1940′s."" Solo Albums: Also performed on: Jim Mills (banjo player) James Mills (born December 18, 1966) is an American musician known primarily as a bluegrass banjo player who plays in the 3-finger style popularized by Earl Scruggs. Jim is also well known as an expert on pre-war Gibson banjos. He currently resides in Durham, North Carolina. Jim worked as the banjo player for Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder"
"Bynon Richard Glenmor Beynon, professionally known by his stage name BYNON, is a British-Canadian music producer and DJ. The clarinet prodigy turned DJ/Producer/Songwriter comes from a family of musicians hailing from South Wales (U.K.) but was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Educated at the Langley Fine Arts School, Juilliard School ,and McGill University, Montreal, he was inspired to play guitar, bass, keyboards, piano and drums before becoming a top clarinet player. Performing with the Surrey Youth Orchestra, the Vancouver Summer Pops Youth Orchestra and winning gold at the Kiwanis International Fraser Valley Music Festival. Collaborating with his father, BYNON arranged"
"guitar when playing with his band The Evens. Aerosmith's Joe Perry plays a six-string Fender baritone bass tuned down to a G (which was later stolen) on ""Back in the Saddle"" on the 1976 ""Rocks"" album, and currently uses a Music Man Silo Baritone. Pete Loeffler, the guitarist/singer from Chevelle, uses a custom built PRS baritone and Fender Sub-Sonic baritone guitar for their songs in drop B tuning. Mike Mushok of the band Staind has a signature model baritone guitar manufactured by PRS Guitars. Prior to his PRS signature model, Mushok had a signature baritone guitar produced by Ibanez called"
"taught throughout Catalonia, most notably in the traditional music departments of the ESMUC (Catalonia College of Music) in Barcelona and at the CRR (Conservatoire à rayonnement régional) in Perpignan, France. Fiscorn A fiscorn () is a musical instrument. It is in the brass family, a bass flugelhorn in the key of C. Originally played in polka bands throughout Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, as well as in military bands in Italy, the instrument has migrated to find its home today in Catalonia. Favored over other valved low brass for its haunting mellow tone and bell front projection, the fiscorn quickly"